st: Re: global keys

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

see help inlist()

It only works with up to 10 strings (which your example exactly meets)

M Blasnik

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael McCulloch" <mm@pinest.org>
To: "Statalist" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 10:01 AM
Subject: st: global keys



> Dear Statalist members,
> I have a dataset which contains a variable <site_02> containing a 
> long list of tumor ID codes, from which I want to keep ten:
> C180 through C189.
>
> Is there a less labor-intensive way to do the following:
>
> keep if site_02=="C180" |  site_02=="C181" |  site_02=="C182" |  ///
> site_02=="C183" |  site_02=="C184" |  site_02=="C185" | ///
> site_02=="C186" |  site_02=="C187" |  site_02=="C188" | 
> site_02=="C189"
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